There is such a yearning within me to write, right now, it is unexplainable. I've never had the urge to write, quite like this before. It's surprising me a little. However, the odd thing about it all, is the fact that for the past 2 years or so I have had the worst case of Writers Block. I sit down to write, to journal and everything that once was in my head is *poof* gone. Vanished. It has been quite frustrating.
My hubby completely surprised me at Christmas and bought me the most amazing leather bound journal. It was something that I didn't ask for, wasn't expecting and completely caught me by surprise. I've never really been the writer or felt as if I had the "Talent of Writing" as so many of you out there do, but my husband swears up and down that I have this God given talent of writing. I don't see it. I never have. I tend to play around with writing... like blogging occasionally, or writing poems or just journaling my thoughts.
I took Creative Writing classes both in HS and in College, and I absolutely loved them. It gave me the freedom to be as creative as I could be in stories & poems that I wrote and in the assignments given to us. It was a creative outlet and often times very refreshing. The one thing we had to do each week, was to keep a journal for class. At the end of each week, we were to turn in our journals and she would read and grade them. I loved it! Our journals were to write about whatever we wanted to, whether that was just talking about our day or what we did over the weekend or venting about something, it didn't matter as long as we were writing. Looking back at it now,... it was blogging in a spiral notebook... long before blogging even existed! Huh? Funny!
It was, by far, my favorite class. To be honest, I haven't really written much since then and I miss it.
So, why this urge to write all of a sudden? Where is it coming from? What is it's purpose? Does it even have a purpose, or is it more like personal therapy? I don't know. I don't have the answers to these questions, but I feel like I need to explore this medium again to find them. So with that, and with the beginning of a new year, it seems like the perfect time to pick up the pen again and begin writing. I am excited, scared, anxious and feeling very vulnerable, but it's time for a new journey.
Let's see where the Lord leads, where He takes this and what He chooses to use it for.
Learning to Write Again...
